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Hill Kaka militants were planning massive attacks in Mumbai
New Delhi, June 08: Evidence gathered from Hill Kaka area in Jammu region has indicated that militants holed up in the hillock were planning major attacks on high-rise buildings in Mumbai, in a replay of 1993 serial blasts, informed sources said today.
New Delhi, June 08: Evidence gathered from Hill Kaka area in Jammu region has indicated that militants holed up in the hillock were planning major attacks on high-rise buildings in Mumbai, in a replay of 1993 serial blasts, informed sources said today.
Literature and photographs seized from Hill Kaka area during "Operation Sarp Vinash" have shown that the militants had got themselves photographed in south Mumbai's prestigious Bhuleshwar locality where several high-rise buildings and Raj Bhavan are located.
The sources said there was evidence that militants had recced the area and were planning to carry out their nefarious designs, including detonating a series of bombs.
This was being planned by the militants to whip up communal tension in the metropolis and label it as a "revenge for the communal riots in Gujarat", they said.
They had also planned to target specially-designed colony of Vashi in Navi Mumbai where flats of several prominent non-resident Indians are located, the sources said and added this would have created a fear-psychosis among the NRIs and put a check on their investment in India. Several photographs of militants posing before the prestigious South and North Block in the national capital and India Gate were also recovered from the bunkers smashed in the Hill Kaka area by Army recently.
Earlier, there were similar instances of militants posing in front of their targets before carrying out the attack as was done by the terrorists who carried out an audacious attack on Parliament on december 13, 2001.
The five militants had recced the area and got themselves photographed before it while posing as tourists. They had managed to click themselves at all sides of Parliament and the photographs were downloaded from the laptop recovered from one of them. The security agencies including Intelligence Bureau had been warning about the presence of a large number of militants in the Hill Kaka area.
The sources said the militants were ruling the area and the nomads located there were virtually following their diktats because of the fear of gun. Bureau Report
The sources said there was evidence that militants had recced the area and were planning to carry out their nefarious designs, including detonating a series of bombs.
This was being planned by the militants to whip up communal tension in the metropolis and label it as a "revenge for the communal riots in Gujarat", they said.
They had also planned to target specially-designed colony of Vashi in Navi Mumbai where flats of several prominent non-resident Indians are located, the sources said and added this would have created a fear-psychosis among the NRIs and put a check on their investment in India. Several photographs of militants posing before the prestigious South and North Block in the national capital and India Gate were also recovered from the bunkers smashed in the Hill Kaka area by Army recently.
Earlier, there were similar instances of militants posing in front of their targets before carrying out the attack as was done by the terrorists who carried out an audacious attack on Parliament on december 13, 2001.
The five militants had recced the area and got themselves photographed before it while posing as tourists. They had managed to click themselves at all sides of Parliament and the photographs were downloaded from the laptop recovered from one of them. The security agencies including Intelligence Bureau had been warning about the presence of a large number of militants in the Hill Kaka area.
The sources said the militants were ruling the area and the nomads located there were virtually following their diktats because of the fear of gun. Bureau Report